Oy BioMar AB now offers 30 years of experience to our partners in Finland, where fish farming is a strong player for producing delicious, healthy, sustainable local food.
With its thousands of lakes, long rivers and a long coastline Finland offers excellent conditions for fish farming. Here, commercial fish farming started in the late 1950’s. It had its first boom in the 1960’s, when industrial production of rainbow trout gained foothold.
Revolutionising fish feeds
With the introduction of dry feeds, the efficiency of fish farms grew stronger. BioMar was established in 1962, with the aim of producing dry feeds that showed to be revolutionising fish farming, especially in fry production. Finnish authorities granted import licence for BioMar fry feed, and first feed deliveries were made from the BioMar factory in Denmark to trout farmers in Finland.
BioMar’s collaboration with the Finnish fish farming industry has grown stronger ever since.
Establishment of Oy BioMar AB
Over the years, Finnish fish farming became a strictly regulated and supervised activity demanding for environmentally friendly feeds. In 1987, BioMar launched Ecoline, the first fish feed programme in the world with a feed declaration on its environmental impact. This development was noticed by trout farmers in Finland.
In 1993, Finnish authorities granted import licence for BioMar grower feeds and the demand for importing BioMar feeds boomed to another level. In 1994, BioMar established its first warehouse at the port of Turku to economise transportation and to strengthen fast in-land deliveries.
On 25th of January 1995, the Finland-based subsidiary of BioMar in Denmark, Oy BioMar AB, was established.
In 2000, the company expanded its operations considerably by acquiring the fish feed business of Suomen Rehu.
BioMar’s collaboration with the Finnish fish farming industry has grown stronger ever since.